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Pakistan Bomb Kills at Least 29

Insurgents, Despite Recent Setbacks, Seek to Show They Still Hold Deadly Force

By

Zahid Hussain and

Rehmat Mehsud

Updated Sept. 19, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET

ISLAMABAD -- A suicide car-bomb attack in northwest Pakistan on Friday killed at least 29 people, police and local residents say, a sign that insurgents bent on destabilizing the nuclear-armed country are still active despite a series of recent setbacks.

Police and witnesses said the bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle outside a hotel in a busy market in Kacha Pakha district, about 10 miles from the army garrison town of...